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Fixing the noisy hospitalFriday, September 10, 2010 @ 2:37AMThe clamor of modern medicine can actually make us worse. So how do you write a prescription for shhh? Medicine - Health - Hospital - Facilities - Pharmacy

New Study Associates FORE-SIGHT Cerebral Oximetry With Lactate Flux in the Brain of Patients Undergoing Carotid ...Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 7:30AMBRANFORD, Conn. -- CAS Medical Systems, Inc. today announced a new study to be published in the Canadian Journal of Anesthesia. The study from researchers in the Departments of Anesthesia and Surgery, at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada examined the correlation between a variety of point-of-care monitors and lactate flux, an indicator of metabolic stress during carotid ...

How Fast Can Microbes Clean Up the Gulf Oil Spill?Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 6:33PMThese are boom times for oil-eating microbes in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, thanks to BP's Deepwater Horizon accident that has added some 600 million liters of hydrocarbons to those waters. And now research published online in Science on August 24 shows that an array of new and unclassified oil-eating bacteria are feasting on the newly rich resource of hydrocarbons. [More]

New microbe discovered eating Gulf oil spillTuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 3:36PMThe emerging bacteria feeds on oil, won't deplete oxygen levels

UAB in the News: Week of August 23-27, 2010Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 9:00AM(Birmingham News) The University of Alabama at Birmingham will be part of a $40 million, landmark study of Parkinson's disease, a neurodegenerative disorder that affects more than 1 million Americans.